@Medino_Green "Run It"

Medino
Green is the second oldest of four; two step-sisters and one brother.
They weren’t rich, but they weren't poor either. Sharing a two-bedroom
apartment with six people wasn’t easy. He remembers lunch being a large
pot of Ramen Noodles and bologna sandwich for everybody or they’d go out
to eat and have to share fries and a soda. The saying “Sip, sip pass"
really had a meaning for him!

As
a youth, Medino always had a thing for music. At the age of 13 Medino
started getting into rap music, rearranging lyrics and making things up.
In junior high school he made it known that he was into rapping and
started reciting his rhymes to his friends. As a freshman in high
school, Medino really started to "go hard" with his rapping. Rapping got
him lots of attention from the bigger boys and the bad ass dudes who
respected his spit-game. They took to him and he was on the in-crowd.
Medino began cutting classes and hanging out and after school engaging
in rap battles.

Green
would make a name for himself; meeting many people along the way.
Battle-rapping and killing dudes in the cipher won him school and
street-cred. Eventually, Medino Green would join a rap group named “Tha
Crown,” which included I.P. , Ming, and Jae. At the time, Medino Green
went by the name of J-Teflon. The group was short-lived due to beef
and infighting.

By
the tenth grade Medino hooked up with some kids out from Brooklyn
called, "Fresh Cuts"—Kat, Sam, and himself. But again, problems quickly
arose and this group disbanded.

By
Medino’s junior year his grades were suffering because of his rock star
rap persona—an A+ social status and a failing high school career.
Living that young celebrity rapper life had taken a toll on his
education. Other than Language Arts—a class he excelled in because it
gave him a chance to exhibit his gifted writing acumen, Medino showed
very little interest in school.

With
his parents concerned about his education, Medino refocused and buckled
down and brought his grades up, but still not graduating on time.

With
music still driving his life, Medino joined yet another rap
group—A.S.A.P. (Always Serious About Paper), which featured Krysys,
SkateBoard Mane and the newly reinvented J-Teflon whose rap moniker was
now Medino Green. The name came from him listening to a Notorious BIG
song, "Sky Is The Limit" where he said, "Nickname Medina." He changed
the last letter to from an "A" to an "O"and Medino was birthed. “Green,”
because it’s his favorite color—the completeness of his persona.

A.S.A.P.’s first mixtape was "Childs Play Vol.1," released in July 2008.

Medino
Green had a skeleton in his closet—a secret that he had been wrestling
with throughout high school—his sexuality. Understanding that rappers
aren’t openly gay and that he wants to pursue a rap career, being
outwardly gay is a major stumbling block to his success in a world
filled with homophobia. Who would take a gay rap artist serious? Who
would sign an openly gay rapper?

Meeting
a gay producer named Swanny River, who had worked with many rap artists
from the 90’s and was friends with hip-hop legend Kool G. Rap, Medino
began to ingratiate himself in this new world where sexuality—where
being around other gay rap artists, producers was a non-issue. This
helped Medino come to terms with being a gay rapper in a
hetero-dominated genre. Medino found strength in numbers. Medino Green
was a rapper—who just happens to be gay.

Medino
Green’s rap career began to gain some solid footing. Teaming up with DJ
Swanny River and DJ Baker of “Da Doo-Dirty Show,” considered by many as
the “Godfathers” of the “out”/gay hip-hop scene, Medino was picked to
be part of a gay “super group” called “Out Mobb” with members Bry’Nt,
Bone Intell, and Pegg Star. Joining Out Mobb was to be the culmination
of years of hiding, wrestling and shunning who he really was—gay man!
There was no turning back now.

The
public got its first taste of Medino Green on the group’s first outing,
“Step Your Pen Game Up” where the world came to understand that this
young kid would be a force to be reckoned with for years to come.

Medino
Green is a young spitter that could easily go toe-to-toe with your
favorite rapper. His first mixtape, “The 4 Wall Project” is his
introduction to the world that Medino Green is a rhyme-sayer, a lyricist
and a rapper with enough material and to put out a tome of albums.

Get into "Run It" From "The Winter Wonderland Mixtape," Coming 2O12 below